To that I can only say: when I was younger I played a lot of Necromancer types. To make things worse that didn't stop because I truly changed but because I don't have too much time at this point.
The thing is that in 2022 dems were saved by collapse of Roe. However you can't really expect that the same thing will happen twice. Especially since post Roe reality got defined for the most part. While on the other hand the democratic party is evidently in the biggest internal chaos since the start of the century (at least). In my local news I see more and more of "How exactly will we work with Trump?" rather than "Will Trump win"?". What kinda signals that EU politics expects that Trump will win and that preparations have to be made. Actually there are European politicians at current convention (and not all of them are radicals). Which is exactly since they are preparing the ground game for the scenario that Trump wins. After all as Europe is openy moving towards rigth you can expect that the ratio of Europeans supporting red and blue will change and the support for red is evidently growing (the Europeans tend be white if no one noticed). However that will leave it's impact in how online game is played and what will be the results in November.
The number of European's that are "liberalism at all costs" has significantly went down over the last two years. In general when things get really tought through wars or shortages that unsually favors the right. Therefore when it comes to November I don't realy see some grand exception. Especailly since the dems righ now are just too soft to turn this around. Typical US commentator doesn't really consider this but tens of million of Euopeans are switching to Trump in online world that can be quite a factor in all this (that is mostly on anti-immigration basis). What is the swing that no one really cosiders. However if you think that it doesn't matter: take a look at your concerned post about what I am typing here.
At this point I am more of a cynical observer than anything else.
Thanks, yeah that's why I was asking. There's a lot of different ways Americans react to stuff like this, there are the loud minorities, who get out and make the ruckus, and our news media cycle is such to eat that up and by repetition and a million camera angles and wording the same story in all the ways possible as long as its scary, kind of gives the sense that there's more people who react that way than dont. Im sure different members from all over the states can offer insight into how the people in their specific areas tend to react, but where I am, folks when they get mad about something poltiically, they tend to keep low key until they get to the ballot. It's for whatever reason considered bad form to talk politics with polite company, the most of a fuss most people make is the yard signs, 16, and 20 they were everywhere for trump. 24, they are nowhere, but one guy who apparently is ride or die. Not saying folk still wont be red or dead when it comes to voting, but the normies i talk to aint too enthused with him, lot of folks even stopped wearing their red hats.
Lots of folks, lots of normie republicans are gonna go into the boxes and vote for not trump. Doesnt meant theyre all gonna vote for joe, lot of them are gonna say they voted for trump...but they very well may have overplayed their hands.
There's definitely some kind of shennanigans going on with our news outlets, quite a few of the mainstreams are owned by "trump supporters" and some of the lefty outlets here are either sleeping with the enemy or just quoting their subscribers echo chamber whos just not gonna be happy unless they get everything they want with no compromises, idk. But there are still outlets and places to get less finnessed news of the day.
I don't envy the fearful place the rest of the world is in with so much for so many depending on elections this year, and our media being such a three ring circus with the mad seemingly hopeless fearmongering of the news cycle.
I remember being pretty amazed seeing some of y'alls news clips of politicians getting into fist fights and tossed into dumpsters. That kind of stuff if often pointed at as signs that y'all are secretly what you're afraid we are. Which is unfortuate, but I've no doubt profitable to people higher up than any of us down here in the real world of those of us who work for a living, present company included in the us category. That's why I still enjoy coming here to talk politics with y'all over there. I enjoy learning the different perspectives and trivia. I just think its neat.
I definitely picked up on the necromancer type. You've got the gallows humor vibe. I developed a profound appreciation for it in the service and once you've seen a guy blown up from anything be it mechanical mishap or what have you, and it could happen to you just as seemingly at random, you either learn to develop a sense of humor about the grim possibilities of life or you go nuts. Sometimes I wonder whether or not I held out too long and went at least a little crazy, but then I reassure myself its the world that is going crazy, while I am only getting more sane.
In any case, always great shooting the shit with you, alas we cant do it with a beer, so here's you on my next beer. Cheers.
